'Very optimistic' right-wing conservative Braverman will toughen asylum bill to block EU judges

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Suella Braverman has been accused of acting as a 'puppet' for the conservative right as she should toughen legislation to crack down on migrants arriving in small boats.

The Home Secretary is considering changes to prevent a rebellion of up to 60 right-wing Tory MPs who want to stop UK judges following European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rulings .< /p>

A Tory amendment would prevent Strasbourg court judges from granting injunctions to stop evictions, while others would seek to limit the scope of relevant parts of the European Convention on Human Rights man.

A senior Tory MP involved in the amendments told The Independent the group was encouraged by talks with ministers that the bill could soon be reinforce to allow UK ministers and judges to ignore ECHR injunctions.

“We are working closely together to reach a position,” they said. “I am very optimistic. We want the bill to be galvanized against any challenge [by the ECHR]. There is room for compromise here.

The MP added: “We could have lobbied to end all involvement with the European courts and leave the convention. But it's not a battle everyone wants at the moment."

Tory MP Martin Vickers, who backed the amendments, told The Independent: “We need to have much tighter control over our immigration. So we are trying to limit the power [of] judges of the European courts to intervene in these matters.

Rebel Tory MP Danny Kruger - another leading figure behind the amendments - told BBC Radio 4's Today< /em> program that discussions were ongoing. He said he hoped the bill would allow the deportation of small boat arrivals to "work notwithstanding any order of the Strasbourg Court or any other international body".

The Minister of Home Affairs Chris Philp stressed that Ms Braverman is 'discussing these various amendments with MPs', adding that she was 'in listening mode, as always'.

Senior government officials believe the Home Secretary is backing the rebels' push to stop UK judges using the Strasbourg legal precedent when hearing deportation cases.

"She wants to use it to scare us and offer concessions for them to drop their amendments because a big rebellion would be embarrassing,” one told The Times. "She became a kind of...